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<br />. <br /> <br />gaps in housing and employment systems. For example, Circle Pines is largely a bedroom <br />community with workers traveling throughout the region. Connecting housing and employment <br />in this case may be a matter of providing housing programs that maintain solid neighborhoods <br />and improving transit linkages within Circle Pines and within employment centers, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />4, Provide integrated mix of housing types and price or rent ranges within a <br />development, <br />Fueling resistance to intensifying, mixing, and diversifying housing within developments are <br />community concerns about property values, developer concerns about financial risks and market <br />trends, and city reluctance to be the first suburban city to alter existing zoning codes, to impose <br />smart growth principles on the private sector, or to invest public funds to link to regional transit <br />networks that are not yet built. The Coalition seeks to break this deadlock inhibiting smart <br />growth by working subregionally to: <br />. remove concerns about property values by maintaining housing and adding amenities to <br />neighborhoods; <br />. bctter understand market trends through sophisticated, current, and small-scale analysis <br />of socioeconomic data; <br />. attract developers knowledgeable about successful implementation of mixed-use and <br />higher intensity projects in suburban communities; <br />. research and develop ways in which zoning modification can be made to enable smart <br />growth while protecting investments of existing property owners; <br />. adopt common policies, principles, and best practices to encourage and direct smart <br />growth in a cohesive manner; and <br />. undertake subregional smart growth planning in cooperation with other public and private <br />entities that deliver the systems that connect individuals and communities to regional <br />resources, <br /> <br />The LCDA objectives are invaluable first steps toward a livable region, The Coalition would <br />like to suggest that individual cities-and the region~an realize the benefits of these actions <br />quickly and effectively if they are enhanced by intermediate efforts at the subregional level to <br />defray rcal and perceived political and financial risks, to create common denominators that can <br />be connected into rcgional systems, and to build local capacity to effectively deliver regional <br />goals, <br /> <br />10. PROJECT ELEMENTS (3-5 pages) <br />Describe project goals, concept, scope, Specify the types, qualities, locations and timing <br />or phasing of proposed uses, <br /> <br />Goal: City achievement of goals exprcssed in the Regional Blueprint and Regional Growth <br />Strategy through collaborative action on a subregional basis and in cooperation with state <br />departments and agencies, the Metropolitan Council and its divisions, and county and local <br />jurisdictions, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />8 <br />